Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is excited to annouce their second official exhibition in their new Bendix Building space. “Thy Majestic Loose Eye, And Only Thus” will run from May 27 to June 18, 2017 with an opening reception on Saturday, May 27th from 7 to 10 PM. This exhibition - organized by TSA LA member Christopher Ulivo and former TSA Philadelphia member Rubens Ghenov - features the work of six artists: Caitlin Keogh, Dana Degiulio, Lynne Ghenov, Maritza Ranero, Tracy Thomason, and Jessica Dickinson.

Ulivo and Ghenov write:

“There is something faintly erroneous about this curatorial project. Error here should not be confused with the romanticism of failure but rather as a method of finding. As well, it would also be specious to situate this show with error as its focal point.

My error, however, must be the path of a truth: since only when I err do I step out of what I know and what I understand.
                                                                        Clarice Lispector “Passion According to GH” pg. 111

Error here is a method of stepping aside, wherein the curator rather than selecting previously works made vis-à-vis a conceptual premise, selects the artists whose praxis appear to coincide with a specific conjecture, to then request them to make works theoretically based on such speculations.

What is known and understood, perhaps better here suited as felt, is the selection of the artists and the commonalities they share, in my view, with Clarice Lispector’s seminal novel “Passion According to GH”. The novel is an amalgam of prose, poetry, philosophy, mysticism, existential crisis collectively pronounced in diaristic cadence, as the protagonist, a well to do sculptor, embarks into her maid’s quarters, post resignation, to rearrange and clean. It is not that the artists provide a similar terminus to that of Lispector’s, but that the latter’s form and content parallel the former.

Thus in lieu of curating specific works, I asked the six artists in the show to read the text and in respect to their modus operandi and subject matter, relate to the conditions of the narrative in their respective studios.

The artists chosen, Caitlin Keogh, Dana DeGiulio, Lynne Ghenov, Maritza Ranero, Tracy Thomason and Jessica Dickinson provide a syncretic milieu wherein walls are made pervious. History conflates with sentiment, sentiment becomes architecture, architecture presents itself as time, and time … time is hung above the floor, suspended like a half dead cockroach staring back at the viewer, crushed at the waist.”

Tiger Strikes Asteroid is open on Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 5 PM each day, and by appointment at other times. The opening reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. Please email losangeles@tigerstikesasteroid.com or call 209.553.0462 for more information.